Timeline :

PoC provided by :

Reference(s) :

Affected version(s) :

MySQL 5.0
MySQL 5.1
Other ?

Tested on Centos 5.8 x86 with :

MySQL Server version 5.0.95 Source distribution

Description :

An attacker with access to a MySQL database through a user having some specific privileges, will be allowed, through this vulnerability to create a MySQL administrator user. The created user specified in the PoC script is by default “rootedbox2” with “rootedbox2” as password.